Here are the notes of some of the sessions that I attended. If I get a copy of their presentations, I will attach them to this page.
Powerful Projects Involving Parents by Jill Sheehan (Killian Elementary)
Carolina Life: A Post Secondary Program for Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities by Karen Pettus, Laura Chezan, and Kathleen Marshall
Free Resources for Behavioral Interventions by Cheryl Wissick
How to Be “Sneaky Smart”: Responding to Classroom Misbehaviors by Jeffery Craver
Enhancing Your Instructional Program with etvStreamlineSC and OnePlaceSC by Dianne Gregory
Together We Create by Varnshi Rudrapati
Teachers and Classrooms and Websites, Oh My! by April Garrett, Stacy Head, and Tyrone Jefferson
First Year Teacher's Survival Guide
1, Powerful Projects Involving Parents by Jill Sheehan (Killian Elementary)
Book in a Bag:
Go Home Journal
Informational Text
Story Cloth
My Adventures Journal
Who am I? Biography
Picture This!
Celebrity Reader
Mystery Writer
Assessment
2. Carolina Life: A Post Secondary Program for Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities by Karen Pettus, Laura Chezan, and Kathleen Marshall
This offers a college experience to individuals with intellectual disabilities that might otherwise not experience a college life. ($8000/per semester)
Students enrolled will be working on social, community living, vocational, and academic goals.
Post-secondary programs for students with disabilities are increasingly getting national support.
Important entry-level skills: Classroom behavior, social responsiveness, elementary reading and writing skills, following a written/graphic schedule, telling time/being on time, following directions.
How does CarolinaLIFE meet the long term goals?
Academic course content and structure:
Vocational preparation: Job shadowing, job tryouts, looking for appropriate job placements, using data from job tryouts
Independent Living Preparation: Connections with vocational rehabilitation for job coaching, connections with other adult service agencies as necessary, providing some support and training for students living off-campus when appropriate
Social/Recreational Activities: establishing and maintaining peer network for students, Identifying group freshman activities, and campus recreational fuctions, locating local cultural and sporting events that match student interests, encourage students to join service as well as social university organizations.
3. Free Resources for Behavioral Interventions by Cheryl Wissick
4. How to Be “Sneaky Smart”: Responding to Classroom Misbehaviors by Jeffery Craver
Email him to get PowerPoint
5. Enhancing Your Instructional Program with etvStreamlineSC and OnePlaceSC by Dianne Gregory
ETV’s k-12 Educational Portal - Teachers have a single sign-on to the website that will allow teachers to search all their quality educational content, including Knowitall.org, StreamlineSC, PBS Teachers and Kids, Annenberg and Teachers Domain. http://Oneplacesc.org
6. Together We Create by Varnshi Rudrapati
Free Websites for using Technology in the classrooms
7. Teachers and Classrooms and Websites, Oh My! by April Garrett, Stacy Head, and Tyrone Jefferson
8. First Year Teacher's Survival Guide by Amanda Walkup and Pat Hensley
(Powerpoint can be sent by request. please send email to Amanda or Pat)